Wheel-hub.



Y W. T. P'URSGLOVE.

WHEEL HUB.-

APPLICATION FILED DEG.1B, 1911.

Patented Mar. 26, 1 912.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. PURSG-LOVE, 0F PHILADELP HIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE A.

MECKY COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA. I

WHEEL-HUB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2 1912;

Application filed December 18, 1911. Serial No. 666,518.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. PURS- GLOVE, a subject of the King of Great Brit-' ain, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful VVheel-Hub, of

which the following is a specification.

My inventiontponsists of a wheel hub having a barrel or a hub member, proper, and cranks fitted thereto and adapted to be interlocked therewith and bound together by a bolt common to said-parts, forming a com-,

paratively one piece construction of less weight and expense than heretofore the parts being adapted to be readily dismantled for packing, storing, and shipping, and

as easily assembled.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the im- I tortant inst-rumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that they invention is not limited to the specific arrangement and organization shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a partial side elevation and partial transverse section of a wheel hub embodying my invent-ion. Fig. 2 represents a side'elevation of the hub member proper detached. Fig. 3 represents anend view of said member. Fig. 4: represents a side'elevation of one of the cranks detached. Fig. 5 represents a side view of said crank at a right angle-to Fig. 4:. Fig. 6 represents a side elevation of a portion of said crank on the side opposite-to Fig; 5.

Similar letters of reference indicate some spending parts in the figures. Beferringto'the drawings :A designate the hub members formed preferably of sheet steel, the same being tubular or hollow throughout, its ends comprising shoulders B which are angular on-their exteriors as at.

B and interiorly angular and tapering forming sockets, as most plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. On the exterior of said shoulders B are tightly fitted the sleeves'D which carry-the spokes E of the wheel, the inner walls of said sleeve being angular so as to accord with the angularv walls of said shoulders, whereby rotation of said sleeve on said shoulders is prevented.

' Fv designates the cranks of the wheel, the same having on the inner ends of the limbs ,G, the conical noses H which eXter-iorly are angular end sockets O of the shoulders B, said noses H being tubular or hollow throughout, their bores H registering with the openings J in the limbs G and openings K in the adjacent ends of the cranks.

M designates a bolt which is passed through the openings K, the openings J, the bores H of the'noses H, the shoulders B, and the body or barrel of the hub member A, and has on its threaded end the nut N, its other end having a head P which. bears against one of the cranks F, While said nut N bears against the opposite crank.

The limbs G of the cranks are mounted in comparatively rigid union therewith, and

consequently of the device, with less, Weight and reduced expense than heretofore. When the screw or bolt N is withdrawn and the cranks moved laterally, the hub member and the appurtenances of the wheel may beremoved without dismembering or disturbing the other parts of the frame or vehicle. Having thus described my invention what I claim as new' and desire to secure by Let-. ters Patent, is

1. In. a hub, a hub-member proper, and'a' 5 crank having on its horizontal limb a nose which is adapted to be interlocked with an end of said hub member proper, said nose, limb and the vertical limb of said member being of integral construction. i 2. In a hub, a tubular hub-member proper, and a crank having on its horizontal limb a nose exteriorly' of angular form, said hub member having in its end a socket of angular form, the same interlockingly re ceiving said nose, 'a' bolt adapted to be passed through the limbs of the crank, said nose and said hub member, and means. for

tighteningsaid bolt in its position.

3. In a hub, a tubular. hub member proper,

*angular and adapted to enter the interiorly the same having onan end thereof ashoulder seen that when the parts I i Whose exterior is rior, comprises an having on its horiz exterior is angular and interlock with 'boit adapted to p the nose --thereof angular a nd whose inteanguiar socket, a crank ontal limb a nose Whose and is adapted to enter said socket, a tightening ass througl'l said crank, and said hub member WILLIAM T. PURSGLUVE.

Witnesses 'J HN A. VVIEDERSHEIM, C. D. 'MCVAY. 

